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Monday, March 22, 2004

I just picked up some Italian dry salame, cheese, crackers, and a nice Vieux Chateau Gaubert, and there is NO WINE OPENER in this godforsaken office.

I am seriously thinking of cracking the bottle open on the edge of my desk and drinking whatever doesn’t spill.

Isabella said on...
03.22.04 at 05:01 PM |

Good luck with that!!!!!!!!!!

Genuine said on...
03.22.04 at 05:04 PM |

Okay don’t panic let me talk you through this! Get a letter opener and push the cork all the way through. We’ll of course you’re drinking the whole thing!

mindy said on...
03.22.04 at 05:06 PM |

OK, why am I not surprised that:

a) Jim would have an office supply-based solution, and

b) that it would result in my having to drink the whole bottle?

jilbur said on...
03.22.04 at 05:36 PM |

when I was, eh, 18? my then-boyfriend and I brought a bottle of wine to a nice nature-park type spot, but we didn’t have an opener ... so he tried out his ignition key. and it broke in the cork. and that was decidedly an unromantic moment. He didn’t own another ignition key, needless to say ...

Later he rigged up a toggle switch to his ignition, but then he had to remove the alternator cap whenever we left the car anywhere.

so—knock yourself out with office replies, but put the keys down.

jilbur said on...
03.22.04 at 05:37 PM |

uh, that would be office *supplies*, not *replies*, editor. [smacks forehead]

mindy said on...
03.22.04 at 05:52 PM |

Oooooh, flashback! My wasband used to have a little Porsche 914, which was stolen while we were on our honeymoon. We got it back eventually, minus the beautiful new custom seats and the ignition column.

For months, I drove it around unrepaired, keeping a screwdriver in my purse for starting the car, and a rag for storing a hose from the distributor cap, which I removed each time I parked the car so that no one else could start it.

Ah, young love.